This chart shows my sleep pattern - the coloured blocks represent times that I am asleep.

This chart just show my sleeps for 06/10/2014.

Mon 06 Oct 2014 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Total time slept: 7:17 hours

Details:

Sleep 1

00:33 to 05:42

(5:09 hours)

Last night I fell asleep quickly. I slept through the night and was dreaming when the alarm went off at 5:30am, but I couldn't remember what I was dreaming about after I woke up.

I felt really tired, so I jumped out of bed, turned off the alarm, set it for 15 minutes and got back into bed. Yu Lee cuddled up to me and I dozed, but then I got out of bed 1 minute before the alarm was due to go off again.

Sleep 2

12:42 to 14:47

(2:05 hours)

This was one of the nicest naps I've had for a long time!

I fell asleep pretty quickly, and slept deeply. I woke up naturally from a dream and then closed my eyes for a minute. I opened them up again moments before Yu Lee came in through the door and woke me up.


Dreams:
Eating Out
dream Dream: Monday 06 October 2014 14:47

Eating Out

Tags: Yu Lee

Me and Yu Lee are at home, and we're both starving but haven't organised anything for dinner. I suggest that we should go out to eat but Yu Lee isn't keen on the idea. I'm not sure how, but somehow Yu Lee gets a small wrap with kebab meat and chips inside, which we eat, but afterwards we are still hungry as it was really tiny.

I say again that we should go out to eat and this time Yu Lee says that it's going to rain really heavily and isn't safe to drive. I manage to convince her and go to put my shoes on.

As I am sitting there, trying to get my feet into my shoes, I start to have real difficulties getting them in and get very stressed. Every time I try to push my feet into them the backs of the shoes get caught under my feet and fold down inside the shoes. I get more and more frustrated and eventually end up throwing my shoes across the hallway.

Yu Lee asks if I'm OK and I explain that I can't get my shoes on, and she manages to calm me down and help me to get them on. It starts to rain outside and Yu Lee convinces me to let her drive.

When we get to the restaurant, we realise that it is also a hotel and has rooms available. It is raining more and more heavily outside, so we decide to book into the hotel just in case we can't get back in the rain.

After paying for our room we order a kebab (it is a Turkish / Mediterranean / Middle-Eastern style restaurant) and sit down to eat it. After we've taken just a few bites out of it we decide to quickly pop up to our room and dump our stuff, and then return to the restaurant.

When we get back our food is gone. The waiter sees us waiting by the bar (where we were eating before) and calls us over to a table and disappears out into the kitchen.

By this point we have decided that we just want to get a takeaway and go back home as the rain is dying off. After waiting for a few minutes the waiter comes to take our order, and I order a beer. He says there is a problem with the beer and that he has to go and do something in the cellar, and then he rushes off to sort it out before we get a chance to tell him that we just wanted a takeaway. We are sure that he assumed we are eating in because he knows that we have booked a room for the night.

While the waiter is gone, me and Yu Lee talk about what we are going to do for the rest of the night. We both wanted to leave, but we agree now that we are there so we might as well make the most of it.

After a long time the waiter comes back with my beer. It is in a small brown bottle and is some kind of craft beer. I take a sip and it is a lovely, cold lager with a refreshing and slightly sweet flavour. We start to make our food order when I wake up.

Sleep 3

23:57 to 05:42

(5:44 hours)

Last night I fell asleep pretty quickly. I woke up at about 2:00am from a dream which I no longer remember, and then slept through until about 5:40am when I woke up naturally. I dozed for a couple of minutes, and then realised the alarm was about to go off and got up.


Dreams:
Testifying for a Guy with a Green "Flute"
dream Dream: Tuesday 07 October 2014 05:42

Testifying for a Guy with a Green "Flute"

In my dream I am living in a small apartment with Yu Lee. I'm not sure about all of the details, but the apartment feels a bit like student accommodation, although I don't think we are students. It's definitely not in a normal block of apartments, and I get the impression that it is in a building where people work or do research.

My apartment is pretty small. From the corridor you come straight into the living room which has a table and four chairs, a two seater sofa and a TV. It's not a very big room and the furniture takes up most of the space.

Out the back of the living room is a tiny hallway. Immediately on the left is a tiny, narrow kitchen, and the next door leads into our bedroom. I can only assume that there is a bathroom somewhere as it never appeared in my dream.

The first thing I remember is getting a visit from a young man with blonde hair, and he tells me that I need to testify in his trial. I don't feel that I have the option of declining: it is a legal requirement that I testify.

He has a very strange musical instrument with him that he tells me is some kind of flute. (It had a funny name, and I felt that it was alien. The dream had a bit of a Star Trek feel to it at this point.) For some reason I had to listen to a recording of some music and testify at his trial that the musical instrument in the recording sounds exactly the same as his instrument.

I agree to do it (not that I felt that declining was an option) and he leaves, telling me that he will return later.

A while later, a group of people turn up at my door. They are people that I have never met before, and to be honest they look a little bit scary. They tell me that they are a surveillance team and have been sent to keep an eye on me whilst I'm involved in the trial. They tell me that they need to take a few things out of my apartment for some reason so I say OK.

While I'm dealing with the 'surveillance team' there is another knock on my door. I ask them if I can answer it and they tell me to go ahead.

This time it is someone to do with my work at the door. He is older than me (in his 40s) and has some kind of document that he needs me to read. While I'm dealing with him the door goes again and two guys are at the door that need to talk to me about something. I tell them to come in and I talk to the original guy again while the two new guys wait in the kitchen.

The door goes a third time, and this time it is the boy who's on trial, and he has brought his flute back to play it for me. I tell him to set up in my bedroom.

The door goes again, and this time it is Christina, Stefan and Alana who have come to visit, unannounced. My tiny apartment is getting a bit crowded now: there is the boy in my bedroom with his flute; two guys in the kitchen waiting for me; the guy from work in the front room with me at the kitchen table; Christina, Stefan, Alana and Yu Lee hanging around by the sofa; and the surveillance team moving in and out and removing items from the apartment.

I ask the work guy if I can go and quickly speak to the others and see what they want, as it's going to take a long time to read his paper (which, by the way, seems to be a pretty long newspaper article and nothing to do with work!).

I go into the bedroom, and the boy with the flute tells me he is ready. I was just intending to pop my head around the door and tell him that I'd be a while, but as he's ready I decide to have a quick listen. He sits there fiddling with the flute, but he still seems to have a bit of setup to do, so I wait and watch what he is doing.

This is the first time that I got a really good look at the flute. It was a large instrument, probably about a metre long, and made from green stone. The mouthpiece was a long tube that you blow into, but the end where the sound comes out was really weird, like a large stone box with a cylindrical hole in the end.

After a few minutes he starts playing it and a weak sound comes out, but I'm too distracted to really pay attention to it. Yu Lee comes to the door and asks if it's OK for her to take Stefan, Christina and Alana out to look at something related to biology and tell her "of course!" By this point I'm stressed at having so many people in the house and glad to get some of them out.

After a couple of minutes I start to get stressed at having so many people in my apartment. The boy is still not playing his flute properly and is having some kind of problem, and is also fiddling with a CD player trying to play a backing track. I tell him I need to pop outside for a breather and walk straight out the front door, leaving all of the people inside.

I leave the building and walk down the street for about five minutes. After that I turn round and start walking back. I notice a black man in a uniform standing about 100 metres away from me. As I start walking back to the building he starts walking backwards, watching me the whole time. I realise that he is there as part of the surveillance team and is keeping an eye on me.

As I get back to the apartment building I see the rest of the surveillance team leaving in a white van. One of them winds down the window and tells me that they told everyone that I'd gone and wasn't coming back today. I feel quite angry that they said that as I was just popping out to get some air.

When I get back inside the apartment it is empty. All of the people have gone, and a lot of my things are missing too, for example the speakers from either side of my TV have been taken. I suddenly feel very alone and wonder where Yu Lee and the others are.

Edit

I remember one more part of my dream, but not where it fit in exactly. I remember walking down a corridor with the guy in his 40s, and I'm not sure how the conversation got onto it but he told me that he plays League of Legends. I asked what champion he likes to play and he said that he plays Nidalee. I asked him if he plays top lane and he said that he does.

Then he went on to tell me that he doesn't understand how to play mid lane and doesn't know what champions can be played in the mid lane and I told him that you could play Veigar.

The other thing I remember is that when I saw that my speakers were missing, I though "Oh no, now we can't watch LCS with the good speakers!"